I don’t know anything about Thomas Paine, but if he really is a former NYPD cop with intelligence skills, then he could be a formidable foe of a corrupt FBI, etc.
The KEY QUESTION in every raid conducted by the FBI against people at home in the “Trump collusion” investigation is, WHO ORDERED THE RAIDS, WHO DIRECTED THEM, AND WHO PARTICIPATED IN THEM, AND WERE THE RAIDS ILLEGAL INCLUDING UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE, ACTUAL OR THREATENED, ESP. AGAINST CHILDREN.
I say this as one who worked undercover with the FBI (and Congress), and was treated with professional respect, even up to the top, i.e. Deputy Director for Counter-Intelligence William “Bill” Sullivan.
I counted amongst my friends (though I didn’t know his covert position for many years), Ray Wannell, the secret Counter-Intelligence Director of Operation SOLO and other penetration and counter-ops of and against the Soviet Union and Cuba.
What has happened to the FBI and DOJ? WHO corrupted them? I know that Pres. Clinton and AG Janet Reno did in the LIUNA RICO case (See one of the most important articles ever written about the Clintons and Organized Crime at “The American Spectator, April 1997, Byron York, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill” (to the tune of $3 MILLION and received $30M+ in return).
Eric Holder was a little shit from the start. He had ambitions in the 90’s of being the Attorney General and never stopped pursuing them, at any cost.
Loretta Lynch was a tremendous disappointment to me (for professional reasons).
Comey is corrupt as is Brennan (who gave him any kind of security clearance?); Clapper turned out to be a fool, another great disappointment. Hayden, NSA, wow! The one man who we could trust, Gen. Flynn (DIA) was taken out on a fake charge and his life destroyed, on purpose (so he wouldn’t talk about the corruption he had run in to).
I know something about DIA leaders as my classmate was once its’ head - Gen. Daniel Graham (CIA, DIA, VN Intell, B-Team, SDI proponent/leader). My father-in-law was one of the top US Counter-Intelligence officers for the Army during the Cold War. He, and my wife, used to play tennis with Gen. Maxwell Taylor (who I later interviewed for a radio show I worked on for the American Security Council - small world).
I had enough friends in the intell field to fill a hotel named “Spook Central”, and that doesn’t include my friends in the FBI, NYPD and other police departments, plus private intel investigators.
Pres. Trump must totally clean out DOJ and the FBI, the CIA, DNI and other corrupted intell organizations down to the lowest rat.
If Sessions won’t do it, get someone with the balls who will. America’s survival depends on it, NOW, not later.
I hope Thomas Paine’s story is true, documents to the nth, and “names names”. If so, Congressional committees only under Republican control will have enough work to last through the 2024 election period.
Thank you for your service.
> “What has happened to the FBI and DOJ? WHO corrupted them?”
Patriot Act ==> JTTF==> CIA takeover of FBI HQ.
CIA operated only (mostly) internationally before Patriot Act.
CIA operated domestically (in the open) after Patriot Act though ‘fusion centers’, a reorganization of federal, state, local law enforcement via command and control centers.
Fusion contractors such as Fusion GPS were formed to facilitate the integration.
CIA international ‘morals’ or ‘mores’ were criminal becaue world stage populated by criminal types. CIA became like the others.
Bad Guys beget Bad Guys.
When CIA persons were told to ‘fuse’ with FBI, they brought their international mores, their murderous lying culture with them. They influenced upper FBI echelon via JTTF.
Comey, McCabe, and others in FBI upper echelon never went through FBI schools and training. They were not graduates. They were CIA plants; CIA took over leadership of FBI.
Through JTTF CIA created a schism in the FBI. FBI HQ compromised and unethical; FBI Field Offices ethical standards still intact.
Pompeo has cleaned up CIA rank and file. Still loose are CIA rogues funded by Clinton-Obama stashed away accounts. POTUS’s 12-21-2017 EO is allowing for tracking down of these accounts to cut off their money supply.
POTUS is cleaning up, draining Swamp. But yes, Sessions is a problem. He’s like Lincoln’s McClellan. DOJ is infested with entrenched Democrats who fancy themselves as part of the ‘Resistance’, as part of the Deep State network. POTUS can fire Sessions but must be careful with 2018 Midterm optics. POTUS is playing his hand masterfully.
Thomas Paine (not his real name) is the real deal. He’s very tough, very contained, very focused but quiet, very knowledgeable and knows how to hit the Deep State where it does the most damage to them. Heard him talk on several occasions. Yes, he sounds formidable.